88 TIMEL1ID/E. 



the ends and tipped with buffy white, the dusky black Increasing in extent 

 towards the outer tail feathers and extending along the outer web of the 

 external ones ; lores and feathers round the eye dull white ; above the eye the 

 feathers are lighter brown with small whitish tips ; ear coverts light brown 

 with pale shaft streaks ; cheeks and under surface of the body dark rufous 

 brown with pale fulvous shaft lines ; under tail coverts dark olivaceous brown ; 

 under wing coverts rufous brown. Bill and feet brown* 



Length* 8-75 to 9 inches ; wing 3; tail 4; tarsus 1*15 ; culmen 0*75. 



IIab* Nepaul and Bhootan, and probably also Sikkim. 



527. Trochalopterum virgatum, Godwin- Austen, P. Z. S. 1874, 



p. 43 ; Gould. B. Asia, part xxvii. ; Sharpe> Cat, B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 379. 

 AUSTEN'S LAUGHING-THRUSH. 



Adult Male. (Naga Hills; H. H. Godwin-Austen; type of species.) 

 Above striated, the back olive with dusky margins to the feathers, all of 

 which have very distinct white shaft streaks ; the upper tail coverts a little 

 more reddish olive; scapulars olive, with distinct white shaft lines; lesser 

 wing coverts dark olive, streaked with white, a few of them slightly tinged 

 with rufous at the base ; primary coverts very conspicuous ashy olive, with a 

 broad central streak of white ; median and greater coverts rich chestnut, 

 tipped with fulvous and with distinct shaft lines of reddish buff ; quills sepia 

 brown ; primaries externally ashy grey, the secondaries deep chestnut, the 

 innermost edged with olive brown, and having distinct shaft lines of whitish 

 like the back ; quills dark olive brown near the base, inclining to dull ashy 

 brown towards their ends, all crossed with dusky cross bars ; head and hind- 

 neck dark chestnut with distinct white shaft streaks, the feathers on the neck 

 tipped with dusky margins ; lores orange chestnut, extending below the eye ; 

 from the base of the bill a broad white eyebrow of lanceolate feathers ; eyelids 

 white ; ear coverts chestnut with fulvous centres ; cheeks and feathers below 

 the eye fulvous white, mottled with dusky or chestnut margins to the feathers ; 

 throat deep chestnut, separated from the cheeks by a black moustachial line ; 

 lower throat and foreneck chestnut with distinct shaft streaks of yellowish 

 white ; under surface of body and thighs yellowish buff with white shaft 

 lines ; sides of the body and flanks olive with whitish shaft lines ; under tail 

 coverts deep orange buff ; axillaries pale orange buff. Legs and feet dull 

 grey ; irides dull reddish brown. 



Length. 9 inches; wing 375>; tail 475; tarsus 1-3; culmen 075. 



Hab. Naga Hills and Munipur. 



Gen. Acanthoptila. Biyth. 



Bill moderately long, compressed, gently curved, pointed and feebly 

 notched; rictal bristles scarce ; feathers of the head with stiffened shafts; 

 wings rounded ; tail long and broad ; tarsus moderately long. 



